Morning News: President Obama Could Talk Cuba in State of the Union Speech Tonight

President Obama invited Alan Gross to the State of the Union, scheduled for 9 p.m. Eastern tonight, in a signal that Cuba policy will be among the topics he addresses.

President Obama will likely address U.S. relations with Cuba in tonight’s State of the Union address, having invited to the event Alan Gross, who was recently freed from prison on the island. Rep. John Boehner will host a Cuban dissident, Jorge Luis Garcia Perez, and Sen. Marco Rubio “has invited Rosa Maria Payá, the daughter of slain Cuban activist Oswaldo Payá, to join him during the speech,” The Wall Street Journal reports. (Baltimore Sun and WSJ)

Related: Two explainers on the new rules for American tourists interested in traveling to Cuba. (Condé Nast Traveler and Skift)

Airlines have added “dozens” of new flights to accommodate demand for the Super Bowl, to be played in Glendale, Arizona, outside Phoenix, on February 1. Despite the extra capacity, average airfares to get to the game are starting at around $700, according to Orbitz data. (USA Today and ABC News)

A closer look at the Airbus A350, what’s probably the last new jetliner to be introduced for at least the next decade. (USA Today)

Will Booking.com’s new last-minute room-booking app unseat HotelTonight as the king of spontaneous stays? Some business travelers, who plan their hotel stays weeks in advance, think not. (Skift)

Marriott will add Hulu, Netflix, and Pandora to TVs in eight properties for a trial run of integrating those services into in-room technology. Currently, guests would have to connect their own devices to in-room TVs to have access to that content. (Bloomberg)

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is visiting Paris today to meet with that city’s mayor, Anne Hidalgo, and lay wreaths at the sites of the Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cacher attacks. (NYDN)

Meanwhile the city welcomes yet another major cultural center, the Philharmonie de Paris, which officially opened last week in the 19th arrondissement. (NYT)